Chase Knolls Apartments

“Chase Knolls Residents Meet to Fight Demolition of 53-Year-Old Apartments,” April 6.

Affordable housing has been in the news a lot lately as a quality-of-life issue for this area. So it’s infuriating as to why a . . . development company like Legacy Partners of San Francisco is allowed the permits to come into our Valley to destroy affordable housing. And what, replace it with “luxury” (meaning expensive) housing that seniors and the working poor can ill afford?

Let’s everybody rally together for the folks at Chase Knolls and demand that Legacy Partners be told “no.” I’m sick to death of people ruining things in this community just because they have the money to do it!

DEE LONG

Van Nuys

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Here’s a difference between me and a real estate developer: During my morning runs, I often pass Chase Knolls and marvel at the beauty and spaciousness afforded to the lucky people who live there, the sense of open space between the units. A developer must pass those same units and say to himself, “What a waste of space! We could make a killing on this property.”

I was raised in Baldwin Hills and remember the Village Green, and I also think of Horace Heidt’s Magnolia Estates. These places are special and deserve to be preserved. But no. A developer is going to evict old folks from their homes, tear them down, and build “luxury” units. Yes, this is still a capitalist society, and yes, landowners do have rights. This is not an improvement for the community. Use your capital to buy land somewhere else, and leave those folks alone.

ARNIE MOORE

Sherman Oaks